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Every four years, most federal agencies all but go underground when it comes to making controversial decisions, hoping to avoid issues that could create difficulties for the White House or engage Congress as lawmakers and the president face the voters.
This makes New York vital both in terms of numbers and perception, with the controversial tycoon hoping to use his victory to regain momentum and reset the narrative to one in which he can set his popular backing against the party establishment and its complicated state-by-state rules for choosing a nominee.
"We're calling on leaders to stop being diversish, and while the video might be a bit controversial, we hope it opens up a conversation.
Ag-gag is unpopular, and it was a strategic move by Iron County and Circle Four to drop the controversial charges, hoping the public forget that each of the four the activists could still face fines or jail time under the class B trespassing misdemeanor.
Van Exel, the Denver Nuggets' talented but controversial point guard, hopes to add some authentic Knicks apparel to his wardrobe this week.
With its sex-fuelled storylines and controversial jokes it hopes, in the words of one producer, to "make people see that disabled people are no more and no less messed up than anyone else".
Some scientists and business executives worry that the neural implant field will repeat the history of gene therapy, which has gone through 10 years of largely dashed hopes, controversial clinical trials and burned investors, though there have been some recent signs of success.
The proposal will surely be controversial among environmentalists hoping to preserve lands like desert stretches of New Mexico where threatened species roam.
After four years of construction, MONA finally opened in 2011, with Walsh talking up its controversial exhibits, perhaps hoping to be once more hated as he had been as a child.
